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Urban Smith (b. June 05, 1882, d. October 06, 1959)
Urban Smith (son of Heman Powers Smith and Harriett Elizabeth Thompson) was born June 05, 1882 in Lynn TownShip, Knox County, Near Galva, Illinois., and died October 06, 1959 in Kewanee, Henry County, Illinois. He married Lenna Myrtis Jones on December 20, 1906 in LaFayette, Illinois.
Notes for Urban Smith:
Urban and Myrtis Smith went to house-keeping on a farm owned by his father, only one and one half
mile to the south of the farm and home place where his father, mother and sisters lived, his brothers
having married and left home before him.
The farm his father owned and operated was homesteaded in June of 1844 by his father before him.
The son Heman being only 10 years of age at the time his peopel settled there. Urban and his wife
farmed on this farm for seven years, also helping his father with the farm labor on the Home Place.
While on that farm the two children were to them. At the end of seven Years Ubban thought he would like to do some custom farming his-self, so he moved his family to a small acreage, in Walnut Grave Yownship, Knox County near Altona, Illinois.
He was there only one year, however when his father's falling health induced him to move his family into his father's farm house, and work the farm and care for his aged father. After his father's death Urban and his wife continued to live on and operate the home farm until they lived there for thirty years.
The farm was then sold to a Granddaughter of Heman Smith, and her husband, and Urban Family
moved into Galva, Illinois, into a home that his Grandfather Thompson had owned years before. there they lived until Urban Smith died in October of 1959, then Myrtis came back to the farm to live
with her daughter and her husband until she died in August of 1964.
Both Urban and Myrtis were active members of the Methodist Church of Galva, and he was Custodian of the City Parks as long as his health permitted. This was a work in which he took great pride. He was a Charter Member of the Knox County Farm Bureau, a Director on County School Board for many years, and a one time Lynn Township Road Commisoner.
More About Urban Smith:
Burial: Unknown, Galva Cemetery, Galva, Illinois.
More About Urban Smith and Lenna Myrtis Jones:
Marriage: December 20, 1906, LaFayette, Illinois.
Children of Urban Smith and Lenna Myrtis Jones are:
- +Lillian Ione Smith, b. November 29, 1907, Lynn TownShip, Knox County, Near Galva, Illinois., d. date unknown, Unknown.

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